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As exciting as it is to see how electric technology redefines automotive transportation, it's just as exciting to see how it alters what we already have. In the aftermarket, EV-converted restomods are quickly becoming big business. But direct from manufacturers, there's great potential in electrifying legacy badges by seamlessly blending old design with new technology.

Case in point is the 2025 Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology, better known as the EV Geländewagen (which is German for all-terrain vehicle), or G-Wagen. Starting at $162,650, the G580 stays true to its original design formula but also utilizes EV technology to bolster its …

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In May 2012, Google Search expanded its transparency report with a new section solely dedicated to DMCA takedown requests.

For the first time, outsiders were able to see details of the URLs copyright holders were targeting and in what quantity.

The decision to make this information available for public scrutiny was partly triggered by a rapid increase in removal requests. This was having an impact on the “free flow of information”, according to the search engine.

10 Billion Takedowns and Beyond!

While additional transparency helped to uncover serious errors and various abuses over the years, it didn’t curb the volume. On the contrary, legitimate DMCA takedown requests against search results shot up and thenn continued to grow.

The chart below shows the increase in takedowns over the years, with a notable uptick over the past year and a half.

DMCA targeted URLs (2012-2025)

Around November of last year, Google received its 10 billionth takedown request. Less than a year later, in April, this number had already increased by another 2.3 billion, or roughly 100 million takedowns per week. After that, Google’s transparency reporting updates froze.

Transparency Report ‘Freeze’

For several months now, Google’s transparency report has been stuck at 12.3 billion reported URLs. No new information has been added since mid-April, which is a clear outlier as previous updates were typically released multiple times a week.

Stalled April 2025 data

The most recent updates in the official transparency portal are dated April 13, and the official takedown charts for senders and URLs also stop on that date.

The raw takedown statistics and details, which Google offers in bulk for academic research and related purposes, are no longer being updated either. The 9.6 gigabyte compressed archive was last updated on April 14.

Raw data not updated

It’s unlikely that Google would halt its transparency reporting efforts without good reason. Thus far, however, the company has not responded to a press inquiry we sent earlier this week, asking for more information.

What is clear is that the company hasn’t stopped its transparency efforts entirely. Google is still forwarding the DMCA notices it receives to the Lumen database, which has data as recent as yesterday.

Information [REDACTED]

As a news publication that publishes multiple articles a year on Google’s DMCA takedown effort, it would be good to see the full reporting functionality restored.

At the same time, it would also be good to know why many of the publicly shared DMCA notices have redacted rightsholders or URLs. These can make it impossible to find out what content is actually being targeted, which negates the purpose of a transparency report.

Redacted notices

In some cases the redactions also make little sense, such as the one below, where a takedown notice sent on behalf of Netflix redacted the domain of the original work as follows: n[redacted]x.com.

A representative from the Lumen database informed us that these redactions are not added at their end, so that suggests redactions are applied by Google.

All in all, Google still offers much more transparency than most online service providers. There is a delay in reporting at the moment, as well as unexplained redactions, but we hope that regular reporting will resume as usual soon, so we can look out for new multi-billion takedown milestones.

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Pokémon Go is having an Eevee Community Day Classic event on both July 5 and 6 from 2-5 p.m. in your local time.

As expected with a Community Day event, Eevee will spawn in huge numbers with a high chance for it to appear shiny. There are also several other bonuses and perks, which we’ve listed out below.

How do I catch a shiny Eevee in Pokémon Go?

As per old research by the now-defunct website The Silph Road (via Wayback Machine), Shiny rates on Community Days are about 1 in 24, which means that if you keep playing throughout the three-hour window, you should find quite a few shiny Pokémon.

If you’re short on time or Poké Balls, you can pop an Incense, then quickly tap each Eevee to check for shiny ones, running from any that aren’t shiny. Notably, any Eevee you’ve already tapped will face where your player is standing, so that should help identify which ones you may have already checked.

What Community Day move does Eevee’s evolution learn?

If you evolve Eevee into any of its special evolutions from July 5 at 2 p.m. until July 12 at 10 p.m. in your local time, it will learn the following moves, depending on which evolution you pick:

Vaporeon: Scald (charged move)Jolteon: Zap Cannon (charged move)Flareon: Superpower (charged move)Espeon: Shadow Ball (charged move)Umbreon: Psychic (charged move)Leafeon: Bullet Seed (fast move)Glaceon: Water Pulse (charged move)Sylveon: Psyshock (charged move)

Any Eevee caught or hatched during the event will also know the charged move Last Resort.

If you miss out on evolving it during this period, you will likely be able to evolve it during a Community Day weekend event in December to get whichever move, but know that since the evolution requirements are lessened during this event, it’s easier to just do it now. If you don’t want to wait, you can use an Elite TM to get the move.

How do the Eeveelutions do in the Pokémon Go meta?

For PvE content (raids and gyms), only a few of the Eevee evolutions hold meta relevance. Espeon can hold its weight as a psychic-type attacker with Confusion and Psychic, Glaceon is a decent ice-type attacker with Frost Breath and Avalanche, and Sylveon can also help dish out damage as a fairy-type attacker with Charm and Dazzling Gleam.

For PvP, the only two Eeveelutions that break through the top #200 barrier (according to PvPoke) are Umbreon in the Ultra League and Sylveon in the Master League. Umbreon will want Snarl with Foul Play and Last Resort and Sylveon will want Charm with Moonblast and Psyshock.

How do I make the most of Eevee Community Day?

The following bonuses will be active during Eevee Community Day:

1⁄4 hatch distance for eggs placed into Incubators during the eventIncense lasts three hoursLure Modules lasts three hoursEevee special photobombs when taking snapshotsEvolution requirements for Espeon and Umbreon lowered to 1 km walking (from 10 km)Evolution requirement for Sylveon lowered to seven buddy hearts (from 70 hearts)

That said, you should definitely put your eggs in incubators and pop an Incense and try to nab a ton of Eevee.

If you can Mega Evolve Pidgeot, Kangaskhan, Lopunny, or Audino, you’ll score additional Eevee Candy per catch.

There will also be “Community Day Continued” Timed Research until Saturday, July 12 at 10 p.m. that will reward more Eevee, including ones with special themed backgrounds. This research will keep the increased shiny rate for Eevee, even after the three-hour event is over, so make sure you complete them for extra chances to get a shiny.

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This project aims to document every instance in which a hospital emergency department (ER) in Canada closed its doors – temporarily or permanently – since 2019. For each closure, The Globe and Mail captured the ER’s name, start and end times, and the reason for the disruption.

Explore the interactive map below to browse ER closures across Canada, as compiled by The Globe and Mail.

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"Rise, son of Cygna. It is the dawn of your seventeenth year. The Elders await you in the sanctuary." If you didn't listen to the 30 minute audio drama first, you'd have no idea what's going on when you first play Loom (1990, Lucasfilm Games). And if you did listen to it, you probably weren't any less confused. And on top of its unique magical fantasy setting, there's an unfamiliar music-based user interface to grapple with! Loom is probably one of the stranger Lucas point & click games, but its definitely not without its charm and therefore well worth checking out.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this podcast we have three guests. First of all returning veteran DGC member Esko ("Firefyte"), who has been speedrunning Loom for many years. Joining the podcast for the first time is DGC member Eino ("Evil Taco"), we love it when we get new people on! And last but not least we are joined by Mads from the Retro Asylum Podcast, who did a podcast on Loom themselves a few years ago.

On top of all this, DGC members Watchful, Juan ("Reidrac") and Christian ("stdevel") sent in a voice message. Thank you so much, we love hearing from our listeners! If you want to send in a voice message too, you can e-mail them to us at club@dosgameclub.com

https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2025/07/ep104.mp3

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Thanks to our producer Pix, who also recorded the audio clips from his retro hardware which you hear in the episode's intro. And thanks to DGC member Console for editing the episode, you're a lifesaver!

Thanks to all who make this show possible, we can't do this without you.

RELEVANT LINKS:

* Retro Asylum Podcast episode 220 about Loom

* Loom on Speedrun.com

* Space Quest IV on Speedrun.com

* Loom EGA vs VGA video by DOS Nostalgia on YouTube

* A webpage dedicated to the EGA vs VGA graphics of Loom on superrune.com

* Interview with Loom designer Brian Moriarty

* Forge is an unfinished fan-made sequel that's worth checking out

* Mark Ferrari's website has some other gorgeous pixel art he made over the years

* Interview with George "The Fat Man" Sanger on the Retro Hour Podcast

* Loom review by the International House of Mojo

* Florian was a guest on the Focus On Linux podcast in an episode about retro gaming on Linux

* We mention some previous DGC podcasts during this episode, including #45 Gateway, #22 Monkey Island, #54 Day of the Tentacle and #53 Interview with David Fox

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In May, we learned that the development of a sequel to the Cyberpunk 2077 game is moving forward at CD Projekt Red, and today, at the Anime Expo 2025 event, it officially announced a new season of the anime spinoff for Netflix. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will have “…an entirely new story, fresh characters, and a raw, realistic take on the most dangerous city of the dark future.

The new season will be directed by Kai Ikarashi, who also directed episode six in the first season, “Girl on Fire.” There’s no word yet on when Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will premiere, but they did show off this new poster artwork. A trailer will be shown later tonight during a panel at 8:30PM PT for the animation studio, Trigger.

Showrunner and writer Bartosz Sztybor said during Friday’s panel that for season one, “I just wanted to make the whole world sad… when people are sad, I’m a bit happy,” and that this new 10-episode season will be “…of course, sadder, but it will be also darker, more bloody, and more raw.”

A brief summary of the follow-up series tells fans what to expect following the end of David’s story in season one:

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge. In a city that thrives in the spotlight of violence, one question remains: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?

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Fedora got into a sticky situation recently, when a proposal to drop 32-bit support sparked significant backlash from the community. The change, aimed at reducing maintenance overhead for maintainers, was met with opposition from users and developers who rely on 32-bit compatibility for certain use cases.

The response was strong enough that the proposal had to be withdrawn, but the change itself will still need to be tackled sometime in the near future to avoid ongoing maintenance challenges.

Now, a new change proposal has popped up, looking to drop UEFI boot support on MBR-partitioned disks.

End of UEFI Boot Support on MBR?

Posted by Katerina Koukiou of the Anaconda installer team, the change proposal aims to drop support for installing Fedora in UEFI mode on MBR-partitioned disks, specifically on x86-64 systems starting with the upcoming Fedora 43 release.

The goal with this is to simplify the installer code and stop supporting a boot configuration that is rarely used, inconsistently implemented across firmware configs, and not officially tested by Fedora.

Plus, this setup can cause the bootloader to crash, adding to its list of problems. In the merge request for this change, Katerina puts it like this:

This patch introduces a disklabel_types constraint in platform definitions and enforces it during bootloader device validation. For the x86 EFI platform, only GPT is permitted. Other EFI-capable platforms (e.g., Aarch64, Arm, RISCV64) are unaffected and may continue using MBR where appropriate - such as in cloud or embedded environments where MBR UEFI booting is still used. This change will help us avoid bootloader crashes caused by firmware failures when MBR is used.

If you are an existing user, then you don’t need to worry, as this change won’t affect your installations. It only applies to new Fedora installations done via Anaconda, where GPT would be required instead of MBR for UEFI boot.

Also, while this change targets x86_64 systems, systems running Arm and RISC-V architectures will not be impacted by it.

This proposal is currently in the community feedback phase and needs to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) before it can be implemented. You can follow the conversation and contribute to it on Fedora Discussion.

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A ’90s psychological thriller like Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue and a modern-day comedy like Spy x Family didn’t seem like they had much in common, until J-pop star LiSA connected the dots for us.

In a moment of serendipity, I wore a Perfect Blue T-shirt to my interview with J-pop rock icon LiSA, a powerhouse Japanese singer celebrated for her dynamic vocals and more than 30 anime opening/closing themes, including the global hit “Gurenge” from Demon Slayer. The shirt organically triggered a conversation about Satoshi Kon — Perfect Blue is one of her favorite movies. LiSA told me she finds Kon’s movies “cruel and dark,” but thinks he’s excellent at depicting “something you know [I have] deep inside.”

Satoshi Kon was a visionary Japanese director, screenwriter, and animator known for blending reality and illusion in psychologically complex narratives. His major works — Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika — each explore identity, memory, and perception through striking visual storytelling and layered characters. Kon frequently blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, often critiquing media, fame, and the fragility of self. Though his career was cut short — he died in 2010 from pancreatic cancer, at age 46 — his influence on global cinema remains profound, with several scenes and themes from his movies recreated in Hollywood films by Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan.

“[Kon’s films] resonate so much demon-like feelings, and also the struggle between, like, ‘I want to be human. You want to be good, but also I could be dark,’ LiSA said. “And that kind of struggle, it resonates with me so much.”

Perfect Blue is a psychological thriller following former girl-group pop idol Mima Kirigoe, who quits music to become an actress, but faces a terrifying identity crisis as she’s stalked by a fan and haunted by a version of her past self. As the line between her real life, her roles, and her online persona blurs, Mima begins to lose grip on who she truly is. The film explores how media, fame, and obsession distort perception — not just how others see us, but how we see ourselves.

LiSA admits that being a public figure plays a part in why she enjoys Perfect Blue. “It’s a story about how much she wants to be loved,” she explained. “Or how much she wants to be recognized. Those are true feelings inside that are actualized in the characters. And sometimes I feel I can identify myself in those characters.”

We also wound up chatting about what she’s currently watching on TV. Of course, a star who’s successfully crafted so many anime songs enjoys watching anime, but she says she typically reads manga more. When her favorite manga gets animated, though, she “pays respect to the animators who do an amazing job.” One of the shows she’s most blown away by is Spy x Family, especially because she adores Anya, a playfully mischievous 5-year-old telepath.

And honestly, Anya is the heart of the show. Spy x Family follows a master spy named Twilight who must build a fake family to infiltrate an elite school. He adopts Anya without knowing she’s telepathic, and marries an assassin (Yor) without realizing she’s a contract killer. As the trio navigates their secret lives, they form a real bond, despite everything they’re hiding from each other.

A pop idol spiraling into an identity crisis and a spy faking her role in a perfect home seem like radically different stories, but both revolve around the universal truth that people long to be seen, accepted, and loved. For someone like LiSA, who lives between the spotlight and the self, the connection between Perfect Blue and Spy x Family is crystal clear.

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